The nominees for the 32nd annual Golden Raspberry Awards, popularly known as the Razzies, were announced tonight. The Razzies are “a logical antidote to Tinsel Town’s annual glut of self-congratulations [created] by John Wilson, author of Everything I Know I Learned at the Movies.” The awards ceremony—at which the organizers expect none of the nominees to appear (though they have been surprised in the past)—will be on Sunday 1 April. This year, they’ve changed their schedule. In years past, the nominees were announced a day before the Academy Award nominees, and the winners the day before the Academy Award winners. This year, they’ve switched things around to give out the awards on April Fool’s Day.
In announcing the nominees, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation said “With three critically panned movies released by his Happy Madison Productions, 2011 was A Berry Bad Year for Adam Sandler, who now totally dominates the list of contenders for [this year’s awards]. Sandler has more than doubled Eddie Murphy’s old record for the most nominations accrued by an individual in a single year. As an actor, writer and/or producer on Jack & Jill, Bucky Larson and Just Go With It, the former SNL star has amassed a whopping 11 Razzie nods, dis-honoring last year’s Worst Achievements in Film.
“Leading the pack for Worst Picture is Sandler’s cross-dressing comedy Jack & Jill, which received 12 nods in all (becoming only the fourth film in the Tacky Trophy’s history ever to get more dings than the awards have categories). Besides having the inside track to ‘win’ the top award, Jill is also contending for Sandler as Worst Actor (as male twin Jack) Katie Holmes as Worst Supporting Actress (playing Jack’s wife) and former Oscar regular Al Pacino, nabbing his third Razzie nod for playing ‘himself’ as being madly in love with Sandler’s female twin. Sandler is also nominated for Worst Actress for playing the role of Jill and, should he ‘win,’ and choose to follow in the footsteps of previous ‘winners’ Halle Berry (Catwoman) and Sandra Bullock (All About Steve) Sandler could potentially become the first ‘winner’ who literally has the balls to accept a Worst Actress Razzie.
“Also selected as Worst Picture nominees for 2011 are: Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star (in which a Midwestern dolt comes to Hollywood to pursue a career in porno films); New Year’s Eve (which wastes some than 20 major stars on a ‘plot’ almost as sophisticated as an episode of The Love Boat); Transformers: Dark of the Moon (an even louder, even longer 3-D follow up to Michael Bay’s 2009 Worst Picture ‘winner’ Transformers 2); and the fourth installment in the Twilight series, Breaking Wind, Part I (in which Sparkly Vampire Edward finally marries—and impregnates—Whiny Goth Girl Bella).”
This year’s nominees are:
Worst Picture:
Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star
Jack & Jill
New Year’s Eve
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I
Worst Actor:
Russell Brand (in Arthur)
Nicholas Cage (in Drive Angry 3-D, Season of the Witch, and Trespass)
Taylor Lautner (in Abduction and Twilight S.B.D. Part I)
Adam Sandler (in Jack & Jill and Just Go With It)
Nick Swardson (in Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star)
Worst Actress:
Martin Lawrence (as “Momma” in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son)
Sarah Palin (as “Herself” in Sarah Palin: The Undefeated)
Sarah Jessica Parker (in I Don’t Know How She Does It and New Year’s Eve)
Adam Sandler (as “Jill” in Jack & Jill)
Kristen Stewart (in Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I)
Worst Supporting Actor:
Patrick Dempsey (in Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
James Franco (in Your Highness)
Ken Jeong (in Big Momma’s #3, Hangover Part 2, Transformers #3, and Zookeeper)
Al Pacino (as “Al Pacino” in Jack & Jill)
Nick Swardson (in Jack & Jill and Just Go With It)
Worst Supporting Actress:
Katie Holmes (in Jack & Jill)
Brandon T. Jackson (as “Charmaine” in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son)
Nicole Kidman (in Just Go With It)
David Spade (as “Monica” in Jack & Jill)
The Underwear Model (aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
Worst Screen Ensemble:
The Entire Cast of Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star
The Entire Cast of Jack & Jill
The Entire Cast of New Year’s Eve
The Entire Cast of Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Entire Cast of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I
Worst Director:
Michael Bay (for Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
Tom Brady (for Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star)
Bill Condon (for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I)
Dennis Dugan (for Jack & Jill and Just Go With It)
Garry Marshall (for New Year’s Eve)
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel:
Arthur
Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star (rip-off of Boogie Nights and A Star is Born)
The Hangover, Part 2 (both a sequel and a remake!)
Jack & Jill (remake/rip-off of Ed Woods’ Glen or Glenda)
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I
Worst Screen Couple:
Nicholas Cage & Anyone Sharing the Screen with Him in Any of His Three 2011 Movies
Shia LeBeouf & The Underwear Model (aka Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) in Trannies #3
Adam Sandler & either Jennifer Aniston or Brooklyn Decker in Just Go With It
Adam Sandler and either Katie Holmes, Al Pacino or Adam Sandler in Jack & Jill
Kristen Stewart & either Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson in Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part I
Worst Screenplay:
Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star (written by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert and Nick Swardson)
Jack & Jill (screenplay by Steve Koren & Adam Sandler, story by Ben Zook)
New Year’s Eve (written by Katherine Fugate)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (written by Ehren Kruger)
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I (screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg)